Ivar Ekeland#
Membership Number: | 5268 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 2020 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~ekeland |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 Professor Emeritus, Université Paris-Dauphine and University of British Columbia
- 2003 - 2011 Canada Research Chair in Mathematical Economics, University of British Columbia
- 2003 - 2008 Director of the Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences (PIMS, Vancouver)
- 1970 - 2003 Professor at the Université Paris-Dauphine
- 1989 - 1994 President of the Université Paris-Dauphine
- 1991 - 1994 President of the National Board for Professional Higher Education (IUP)
- 1991 - 1994 President of the Scientific Council of Ecole Normale Supérieure
- 1967 Research assistant at CNRS
- 1963 Student at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm)
Fields of Scholarship
- Adverse selection
- Growth theory, intergenerational equity, time inconsistency
- Portfolio management
- Hamiltonian mechanics, symplectic geometry and topology
- Theory of demand
- Hedonic markets
- Convex analysis, optimization, control theory, calculus of variations
- Optimal transportation
- Hard inverse function theorems
- Urban economics
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Foreign member, the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna (Austria)
- 2009 Foreign member, the Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology
- 2008 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2007 Public lecture at the International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM Zurich)
- 1998 Foreign member, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Grand Prize of the Belgian Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Honorary doctorate from the Saint-Peterburg University of Economics and Finance (Russia)
- 1995 Honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia (Canada)
- 1992 d'Alembert prize for my book “The broken dice“
- 1984 Jean Rostand prize for my book “Mathematics and the Unexpected”
- 1983 Langevin prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences
- 1978 Invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM Helsinki)